If I wasn’t finished with the conference and I was posting this live I’d say that this was the best presentation of the entire conference - now that I know what comes after I’d have to vote this as the second best.
Roy Tennant started this presentation by killing the word OPAC and replacing it with [...]

I know I’m not done with my summaries yet - so why am I reading others?? Well I was just on Dave Hook’s site looking at the picture from our dinner - and saw that he did a summary of the Cool Tools session. I didn’t attend this session because I attended one at [...]

My first session Friday was the Search Engine update from Gary Price. You can tell that Gary loves his job just by watching him present. He was out of time and he just kept going and going hehe
Gary put up his presentation so that everyone can benefit from it - so I’ll [...]

As you notice, I’m home and posting my conference summaries - I thought I should explain what happened. When we got to the conference we (bloggers) were given a key to access a limited wireless network - it was only available in one of the conference rooms, the press room and the registration area. [...]

For our last keynote of the week we had Lee Raine, Director of PEW Internet & American Life Project. Lee started out by asking us who was going to be blogging this and there were actually fewer hands than I had expected - he said it was a couple dozen, but it didn’t look [...]

On Thursday afternoon we played hooky and went to the Library of Congress - I was so excited - I thought I was going to see walls and walls of books!! There were no books!! I kept saying - “Where are the books”? Apparently they hide the books behind closed doors and [...]

Janie Hassard Hermann covered the training patrons part of this presentation. The official title was “Training for Staff & Patrons in Public Libraries” - I figured that I could still use this information in a special library setting - and I guess you could in some, but probably not in ours.
Janie set up a [...]

I am home and catching up on all of my posting. First, I promised to post the URLS from the Planning for a Mobile Future keynote.
Sites that offer mobile verions (by detecting what you’re using):

TV Guide
NWS
Hoovers
PubMed

Tools to shrink a page to fit on a mobile device (disclaimer - you may lose important info by [...]

Megan Fox gave a very interesting (especially for me - who is sorely behind on mobile devices) keynote presentation yesterday morning.
At our library the Blackberry is the mobile device of choice - but according to Megan Smart phone are being used more than PDAs - which make sense because who wants to carry around [...]

Hey look what I found - a list of CIL Blogger. Make sure to read what others are saying about the conference - keep in mind we’ve been having trouble with the limited access we have to wireless - so posts are probably going up late or not at all.
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That was the theme of the DigiTech (Dead Tech) Forum last night.
This is the first year that I have actually stayed awake to attend this session and it was worth it!!
I didn’t bring paper or a pen with me so I didn’t get to take notes until Gwen decided to share [...]

Yesterday I did something new for me - I ate with strangers Well they’re not strangers anymore. Usually I come to these conferences and eat my meals alone and go to bed early. I ate lunch with 9 other people, most of whose blogs I have read over the last year. [...]

Well this session did not go as well as it coudld have - from no fault of the presenters mind you!
I got in a little bit late to this session only to find that there were some technology difficulties! When this happened in another session someone said the conference is called “computers in libraries” [...]

I’ll admit this session was not what I was expecting! I went in thinking they’d point me to a bunch of tools for designing a usable website (something we don’t really have - well we do - but if you run it through Bobby we’d fail miserably - and our staff doesn’t even know [...]

I snuck out of the Web-Based Experience Planning to attned a cybertour on writing for info pros. Rachel Singer Gordon an author and an editor for Information Today Inc.
Rachel told us that if you have a topic you can talk about for hours and hours - you can write a book - of [...]

David King (who I got to have lunch with today - pictures to come later) presented this session.
He started with a graphic from Creating Passionate Users about the “I Rule” theory - and by “I” it means the user.
He started with the The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett, [...]

Today’s keynote was titled Search Engine Report by Chris Sherman of Search Engine Watch. I actually went in thinking there wasn’t much he could tell me that I wasn’t already aware of, but I was pleasantly surprised. Chris talked about the state of search engines - how in 1995 they were exiting and new [...]

Okay, I need to type fast - I am on borrowed wireless right now - not sure how long it will last. Last night I got to meet Meredith, Greg and D. Scott - I also met up with my CIL friend Tom. I’m now heading down to breakfast and then to registration. [...]

I’m leaving this afternoon for CIL - I can’t wait … of course that means I had to lug my luggage (hey is that why it’s called that?) into work on the bus and then on the El. Can anyone tell me why all public elevators (at least those in Philly) smell like someone [...]

Amiglia is an awesome looking photo sharing site. It lets you share photos with your family in a sort of family tree layout.
Confused? I was too - but then I played with the little demo on the home page and I think I get it. Basically you can link your album [...]

John Blyberg has a post about Library 2.0 Websites (worth a looksie) in which he calls for us to share our code with one another (among many other things):
We ought to be developing on open-source then turning around and making our work freely available to one another. We are libraries after all, we ought to [...]

For those of you web designers with Windows (sorry MAC users) this is a new tool that I just learned about that will make your life easier. As you know you have to design for the popular browser resolutions - but if you’re like me you have your resolution set as high as it [...]

Oh Cool! Another way to show our geekdom. Visit Kiss My RSS and get your own RSS gear (shirts, mugs, bags, etc).
Thanks A Feed Is Born for bringing it to LiB’s attention - who brought it to my attention

I just saw a commercial for register.com - they’re advertising themselves as a complete web solution - they are trying to take work away from me They advertise that you can make your own professional web site in hours with their help. Just something I found interesting and thought I’d share since [...]

I went to visit Web Sudoku today and saw that they have some new options … one of which is Jigsawdoku, the other an ebook maker. How nifty is that? I am always shocked at how much soduko books cost in the store - now I can make my own
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